Anne Rice
I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did not start forward to seize on my slightest pause, to assert an understanding of something before the thought was finished, or to argue with a swift, irresistible impulse -- the things which often make dialogue impossible. And after a long interval he said, 'I want you. I want you more than anything in the world.Collection: Dream
Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!Collection: Prayer
I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532Collection: Giving
Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.Collection: Love Is
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.Collection: Soul
It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.Collection: Nature
It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.Collection: Roots
Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killersCollection: Beautiful
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.Collection: Stars
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.Collection: Natural
Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and in loving him, I would come to need him, and in needing him, I would again be his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that his patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.Collection: Passion
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.Collection: School
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name of defiance.Collection: Crazy
I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.Collection: Meaningful
Get thee behind me, tragedy.Collection: Tragedy
Time can tick when there is no clock.Collection: Tick
Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.Collection: Might
Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.Collection: Moon
God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?Collection: People
Perhaps this is the only real evil left.Collection: Real
I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.Collection: Writing
And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.Collection: Heart
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.Collection: Black
Evil is a point of view ... God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately ... for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.Collection: Views
I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.Collection: Song
I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.Collection: Jesus
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers that won’t shut, struggling over and over against the same meaningless thing, not knowing why the effort seems so desperate, why the sudden sight of a chair with a shawl thrown over it inspires the mind with horror.Collection: Struggle
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short storiesCollection: Fashion
DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.Collection: Buddhist
I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.Collection: Flower
I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.Collection: Animal
I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.Collection: Beautiful
Yes, I know," "And I love to hear you say it, Louis. I need to hear you say it. I don't think anyone will ever say it quite like you do. Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!Collection: Thinking
Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!Collection: Odds
"You're a perfect devil, Lestat!" he was saying. "That's what you are! You are the devil himself!"Collection: Perfect
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees.Collection: Race
The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.Collection: Inspirational
All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid.Collection: Children
I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.Collection: Meaningful
[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.Collection: Believe
Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.Collection: World
-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?Collection: Ties
Wasn't it his right to listen to opera, read poetry and adventure novels, go to Europe every couple of months for some reason or another, and drive his Porsche over the speed limit until he found out who he was?Collection: Couple
I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.Collection: Thinking
...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.Collection: Moon
Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.Collection: Force
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.Collection: Heart
Who knows what the hell a government is or what the hell a government does.Collection: Government
As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.Collection: Beautiful